Knee pads on the "chocolat chips"?

[Autopilot]

Hey,

I'm recently collecting some equipment of the First Gulf War, the desert 6 colors BDU and so on and so on...
What I would like to know is if knee pads were issued to the army back then and if yes, which?

Thank you in advanced!

[Frens]

no kneepads were issued during 1st GW as far as I know

[Autopilot]

Thank you, I was just making sure of it. :)

[Sheikh Al Stranghi]

US kneepads are a very recent thing, mid-1990's unless you wanna count the experimental 1950's stuff.

[Lerch]

Even in the 90's, were they subdued or just the black pads?

[Sheikh Al Stranghi]

AFAIK black.

[oregano]

In Somalia they had knee pads, so it's possible that SF dudes might have had COTS (Commerciaal of the self) kneepads in the Gulf War.

[Freestyler]

even in the somalia only the delta force had knee pads, the rangers didn't, some rangers bought knee pads on their own.